I just don’t understand why it is so difficult for everyone to acknowledge that people (adults or children) are capable of committing horrendous acts of violence on their own family. It happens every day. This is a proven fact.
We can’t justify our beliefs by saying that ‘WE would never do that,’ or ‘WE know THEM and THEY could never do something like that.” This just is not realistic.
We should all know by now that people are fully capable of hiding sides to themselves that nobody else can see. Under the best of circumstances, we do not know where anyone’s breaking point is. What if someone has a hidden, perhaps undiagnosed, mental illness, condition, or temperament that the outside world is unaware of? What if someone has had to endure unthinkable family tragedy and dysfunction in their home life? Further, the holiday season can be extremely stressful.
Who is to say that a 9 year old child--almost 10—could not kill his younger, littler sister? I don’t believe it is out of the realm of possibility that could BR swing something with enough rage to create this amount of trauma to JBR’s skull; Or that he sexually assaulted her (like he had probably done before)? Or that he poked her with a toy in an attempt to awaken her and when he could not wake her, he left her there for someone else to deal with?
These wealthy parents focused on status and image and had to protect themselves and their remaining child. They did what they felt they had to do in the heat of the moment and, thereafter, did what they had to do to keep their secrets. They knew inappropriate things were going on in their house, but they did not do enough (or didn’t know how) to protect their daughter. They were probably in denial assuming that the problem would go away somehow. They were an important influential family--things like this didn’t exist in their world!
PR suffered for the rest of her short life and JR will suffer every day for the rest of his life-make no mistake about that. There is only one person in the world that came out of this tragedy smelling like roses, and it wasn’t an intruder. There is absolutely no proof that there was anyone in that house that night other than the four who resided there.
As Sherlock Holmes said, “…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth...”
All of this is my opinion only…